Jonas Brothers
Set your TiVo, girls: First-time Grammy nominee Jonas Brothers are set to make their debut performance on the awards show.
The brotherly trio, nominated for Best New Artist, will take to the Staples Center stage on Feb. 8, CBS announced. Other artists scheduled to belt out a tune or two are fellow nominees ...
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The Jonas Brothers
Finding a distinctly new nominations rhythm, the Grammys announced this year's nominees in an all-star concert countdown Wednesday, hosted by LL Cool J and Taylor Swift. The unlikely emcee matchup set the tone for many of the categories' diverse nominees, starting with Lil Wayne and Coldplay topping this year's nominations count with eight and seven nods, respectively.
Going head-to-head for top album of the year are Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III, Coldplay's Viva La Vida (both of which were top selling LPs in 2008) and Radiohead's In Rainbows. Joining them are Ne-Yo's Year of the Gentleman and Robert Plant's Raising Sand, on which he collaborated with bluegrass crooner Alison Krauss.
Krauss and Plant also overlap with the nominations for best record of the year, along with Adele, Coldplay, Leona "Bleeding Love" Lewis and M.I.A.
More Grammy nominations, after the jump.
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Congrats to Amy Poehler who had her baby earlier on Saturday! While there wasn't an appearance by Tina Fey or Sarah Palin or Obama, we still had many a fun surprise this week. As previously reported, Maya Rudolph played Michelle Obama, and two Mad Men favorites appeared in a sketch as well. I have to admit, I thought this week was going to be a mess, but Jon Hamm really delivered! Now on to the show...
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Alicia Keys
Alicia Keys will be the woman to beat next month at the American Music Awards. The songstress nabbed a leading five nominations, including the big kahuna, Artist of the Year.
Her other four nods are for female artist and favorite album, As I Am, in both the Pop/Rock and Soul/R&B categories.
Nipping at her heels with four nods are ...
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During a live performance last Friday on the Today show, Coldplay decided to take it back to album numero uno and give their fans something they all could sing along to – the Grammy-winning song "Clocks." Aside from the fact that Chris Martin was a hot, sweaty mess in his tight-fitted hipster-wear, we (for once) have no real complaints about the performance as a whole
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That's what everyone has been buzzing about for the past few days. Turns out the Brooklyn band Creaky Boards has created a video showing the striking resemblance between their song and Coldplay's new "Viva la Vida" featured on the latest iTunes commercial. The songwriter claims he wrote the tune over a year before Chris Martin released his song and has the footage to prove it. Worst part of it all? The first version's title is "The Songs I Didn't Write." How's that for added irony?
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Coldplay by Theo Wargo/WireImage.com
After two million downloads in a one week period, it's a fair assumption that Coldplay fanatics can't get enough of the bands first single "Violet Hill" off their upcoming album Viva La Vida. The Grammy-winning band is also booked to perform the single at the 2008 MTV Movie Awards. It's been quite a wait for fans to hear any new music from the band (2005 to be precise when X&Y came out). Three years is far too long to go without any of Chris' fabulous falsetto! Watch it now! | More online videos
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Paula Abdul by Sam Jones/Fox
Times like this, I don't miss our office being a stone's throw from 30 Rock. NBC has announced the lineup for Today's annual concert series, and the tourists first will be amassing to catch Paula Abdul in action, on April 25. Neil Diamond picks up the baton the following Friday, followed by Mary J. Blige, a "surprise reunion concert" (the Partridges, dare I hope?) and Alanis Morisette.The B-52s, somewhat appropriately, mark Memorial Day with a May 26 performance, then cede the stage to Donna Summer. June brings on Chris Brown, Kenny Chesney, Rihanna and Coldplay, while July features Ashlee Simpson (or a facsimile thereof), Rascal Flatts, Natasha Bedingfield and one Miss Miley Cyrus.Standing space is assigned on a first-come, first-served basis at Rockefeller Plaza. So, which of these acts might drag you into our fair city? — MWM
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Kelly Clarkson
48th Annual Grammy AwardsAfter proudly watching my pals Kimberly Caldwell and Rosanna Tavarez on TV Guide Channel's Countdown to the Grammys, followed, of course, by Joan and Melissa Rivers on our Grammy red-carpet show, I made sure my roommate's VCR was taping Idol and my own VCR was set for Lost. All systems go! Time for the Grammys.8:00 pm The animated group Gorillaz open with their hit "Feel Good Inc.," and since I love the song, guess what? It makes me feel good. But I totally picture my mother in Chicago being very confused.8:03 The goddess Madonna enters and I'm loving every minute of it. Can I please look that fabulous when I'm 47? After a brief lip-synched intro, she sings the rest of "Hung Up" live, and her hair looks like Lydia Cornell circa Too Close for Comfort.8:13 Kelly Clarkson s
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The Grammys, airing Feb. 8 on CBS, will feature performances by Bruce Springsteen (who has five nominations this year), Coldplay (three nods), best-new-artist contender Sugarland and she of the incredibly bodacious eight nods, Mariah Carey, singing with the Hezekiah Walker & Love Fellowship Choir.
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